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Give a gift of Rescue
When natural disasters strike or conflicts erupt, the IRC delivers lifesaving assistance to families in urgent need. Your Rescue Gift can provide essentials such as clean water, warm blankets and...
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Dispelling Taboos: Girls into women
Photo: Jennifer Steele/IRC When 23-year-old Sabina menstruated for the first time, she was in school sitting for exams. Then only 13, she thought she was dying. Her mother had never prepared her for...
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Relief and resilience in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan
Photo: Tyler Jump/IRC The IRC is focusing our response to Typhoon Haiyan on areas that have received very little relief -- working to meet urgent needs for water and sanitation, shelter and...
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Thank you [Video]
From all of us at the International Rescue Committee, thank you for your commitment to our work aiding refugees and displaced people around the world. From all of us at the International Rescue...
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This holiday, give a Rescue Gift of comfort and warmth
This holiday, give a Rescue Gift of comfort and warmth The holidays are here. Give Rescue Gifts from the IRC -- gifts that save lives. The holidays are here. Give Rescue Gifts from the IRC -- gifts...
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Our most popular Rescue Gift: Give a year of school
As seen in The New York Times: A Year of School Rescue Gift can supply the essential resources, such as books and tuition, that a girl needs to attend school for a year in a country like Ethiopia,...
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Three weeks later: an aid worker's view of the Philippines
Photo: Tyler Jump/IRC I've seen incredible devastation in my short time in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan. Homes have been flattened, school yards mangled and businesses blown away. These are...
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On #GivingTuesday, join Rashida Jones and John Legend in giving Rescue Gifts
In a special #GivingTuesday post, InStyle.com lists five ways readers can support their favorite celebrities' favorite causes. Among them? Joining IRC Voices John Legend and Rashida Jones in giving...
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IRC assists Ethiopian migrants deported from Saudi Arabia
Photo: Teferra Haile/IRC The IRC is providing emergency supplies, water, sanitation, health care and other assistance to thousands of Ethiopian migrant workers and their families who have been...
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Thanks to IRC volunteers everywhere
On International Volunteer Day — and every day — our heartfelt thanks to IRC volunteers everywhere who help restore safety, dignity, and hope to people whose lives have been uprooted by war and...
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Crises in Syria and the Philippines: Listen to our update from the field
On Dec. 5, the IRC hosted a phone briefing with updates from two IRC staff experts on our emergency responses in the Philippines and Syria. On Dec. 5, the International Rescue Committee hosted a phone...
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Nelson Mandela: True Hero
Photo: Warko IRC president David Miliband pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, who died on Thursday. "Mandela taught humility, principle, loyalty, endurance, commitment," Miliband says, noting that South...
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"Unspeakable cruelty" in underreported Central African Republic crisis
Photo: Peter Biro/IRC Some 1.6 million people in the Central African Republic are in dire need of immediate food, water, health care, and other humanitarian assistance. Learn more about this...
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David Miliband, IRC profiled in The New York Times
Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images David Miliband, IRC president and former U.K. Foreign Secretary, is profiled in a New York Times story that explores his career in Great Britain, his first months...
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On Human Rights Day: "This is what I’m proud of"
Photo: John Drollinger/IRC Today is Human Rights Day. Providing refugees with accurate information about their rights and support services in South Sudan’s Yida settlement, the IRC’s Sima Barnaba Arne...
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Quoted: Syria’s neighbors "overwhelmed by calls for help"
Photo: Ned Colt/IRC As neighboring countries struggle to host Syrians fleeing the ongoing civil war, IRC president David Miliband offers three recommendations to help them cope with the crisis, and to...
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From bustling capital to ghost town
Photo: Peter Biro/IRC The violence between armed groups, which has plagued the Central African Republic for months, struck the capital Bangui on Thursday. IRC country director Sarah Terlouw describes...
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How to find a charity for giving: the IRC featured on TODAY
On NBC's TODAY show this morning, personal finance expert Farnoosh Torabi offered donors tips for identifying the right charity as they look to make tax-deductible gifts for 2013. She recommended the...
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IRC responds to volatile crisis in Central African Republic
IRC responds to volatile crisis in Central African Republic Peter Biro/IRC Plagued by poverty, war and political instability since independence from French rule in 1960, the Central African Republic...
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Central African Republic: Providing care for women in the midst of chaos
Photo: Peter Biro/IRC KAGA BANDORO, Central African Republic “I treat rape survivors here every day,” IRC-trained midwife Margueritte Mallo says as she sits on a bench outside her tiny office at the...
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